Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Waiting Continues to Continue…

October 15th,
the first day that US MD schools across the nation can accept applicants, has
come and gone. And here I am, acceptance-less.

Ah well…

This process
takes time. Or so I keep reminding myself. And only two of the schools I
interviewed at—Temple and Saint Louis—actually began handing out decisions for
my wave of interviewees this week, and neither school even said anything to
anyone until the 16th. I won’t
even hear something from Wayne State until the 24th, and Loyola’s
admissions committee doesn’t meet to go over applicants from my interview date until
the 29th. Boston won’t say anything until January, for goodness’
sake. I have another interview lined up for next week. So it’s still really early, and realistically I shouldn’t be worried yet.
Besides, my wonderful wife has continued to provide plenty of much-needed
encouragement.

This entire
process does nothing but foster neuroticism, and all this waiting provides
plenty of fertile ground for dreaming up worst-case scenarios. There are
hundreds of applicants in my shoes. I should be—and am—grateful for the
interviews that I have had thus far. In all likelihood, I’ll be just fine.